The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-12-25

George Pauncefor. (That a world OF
gests) vas IS full of funny stories as
an egg is full Of meat. During his
sojourn IN Salt Lake has influence i'll a
social Way was quite as prominent {
factor in holdin; together the OLD
Deseret Dramatic Association as Wa
the example of his dramatic genius
The SURVIVING members of that ancient
aud honorable society never seem to tire
of Counting his original exploits, his
ga Mt experiences aud his Thousand
pd gent auecdoIes - though III
the recital OF any OF them
the Spokesman of tse occasion Is
always bound u make the most pro-
fuse apologies to bis auditors for not
being able ~ tsli the thing as we'll as
Pa0nceIort did, ana invariably ends the
story with something ike the follow
ing: But this is only the merest skei-
etou of the original story. Pauncefort
used 10 tell 1t; you ought 10 hear
PaunCefort tell it, etc
On one occasion, net long age three
OF the members of tee old "Deseret
Dramatic" accidentally met in ths
green room If the theatre, and
the sight of each others faces, the the
&trlcai surroundings. the very sDletL oi
the place, as one of .hem graphically
put IL, suggested such troop of recOl-
lsCtlUnS that they might have beer
slapping each other on the back and
laughing and talking yet, II Bro her
DeTr, ri he sleeps there, had nos begun
TO disTObe III their presence rs r.
miuder that the night was far spent
Among other experiences they related
was one ii Pauncefort and Z. L
Lyme, VINO during iull in the dram
aiiI work a the theatre, took II
ruR into The adjoining county OF Tooele
tie give readings from shakespeare
Taey arrived at EVANSVILLE, a1G ma ie
known their business 10 Bishop -
Who welcomed them IN the good OLD
fashioned way, aud COurteoUsiy sent
MS girls about The towB to tell lis good
folk that there would be mer ting Il.
the schOOlhUuse tLa5 night :. ear
candle light. When that rather iude!-
n'te period arrived, b, re was crowded
house, and the oIsht p, WAC spOAe WIN
the brOaGest kim of t BT5. q
draTl, arose to explain the obje
OF the meeting, and TO lntro4uc5 the
gifted strangers who were On The stabG
10 the audience. Pauncefort, OF course
enjoyed hims, II ely miUu'e. tat
Lyme sat apart by himself, grand
gloomy and peculiar" and MANI aimed
!. coLtlDuous sCowi which s8lG - pla.ui3
as words, that mis- dignity was Lei <
banged about ana chucked IN the rlo-
aud derided by the common nerd.
Bielbreu and sisters Began tue
presiding genius, I've ave with US thu
hcvnuu two brethren ION caIJ LAKE g.
Is st present engaged ii the business IS
CLAW hactln'. Some on YOU may think
they're in big BUSINESS, b1g
then we must respect every man
III his calm and some Is one thing au4
some another. thOw spOse grass nun
he pretty short wi these two, and so
they come out to gle us some readIug
ont o. some play books. Please C0rreGC
me f l make any mistake. One on en-
is Brother PauncefOIt and tother. De
named Lion; and one on EN- will re41
and then tother. and then again i,y1h
together, andlBrother Rowberry DO sayjt
be pretty good. Of course they viii aTI
to charge a htde sdthin' Tor
the show, bat [ am informeG
they takes all kinds OF Pr"dus
and that will hease us IN d DIT.
as I was tellln' tbs Ieu' sooprr
time, dollars doant grow on sag
brushes j this country. Do ee tax
dried frUit2" Here the bishop turn-d
and looked towards LYue Tor HI an
,wer TO his question. The latter siD2
DIV sCOwled heavily at PauGCetoTt VINO